http://www.ask-kalena.com/q-and-a/q-and-a-are-flex-flash-based-websites-search-engine-friendly/ Your Daily Search Engine Advice Column Fri, 21 Oct 2011 07:51:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.ask-kalena.com/q-and-a/q-and-a-are-flex-flash-based-websites-search-engine-friendly/comment-page-1/#comment-32165 Darcy Mon, 17 Aug 2009 02:35:53 +0000 http://www.ask-kalena.com/?p=930#comment-32165 I am definitely agree with webconsulting, because when your sites are fully flash effects, this cannot be easily detected by search engines. I am definitely agree with webconsulting, because when your sites are fully flash effects, this cannot be easily detected by search
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]]> http://www.ask-kalena.com/q-and-a/q-and-a-are-flex-flash-based-websites-search-engine-friendly/comment-page-1/#comment-25448 Webconsulting Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:59:27 +0000 http://www.ask-kalena.com/?p=930#comment-25448 Thanks Saurev, despite recent suggestions that the search engines are getting better at crawling flash based sites - I am still sceptical. I am yet to see a fully flash site that achieves good rankings for anything - and even assuming that it's contents IS able to be crawled properly - it is impossible for the search results to link direct to the relevant content. There is still only 1 URL available to link to, and visitors then have to try and find there way (via the onsite navigation) to the specific content that is of interest to them. Flash is certainly sexy and can be useful, but should be used as elements on a page (whcih can then be crawled/indexed), not as a whole site. Thanks Saurev, despite recent suggestions that the search engines are getting better at crawling flash based sites – I am still sceptical.
I am yet to see a fully flash site that achieves good rankings for anything – and even assuming that it’s contents IS able to be crawled properly – it is impossible for the search results to link direct to the relevant content. There is still only 1 URL available to link to, and visitors then have to try and find there way (via the onsite navigation) to the specific content that is of interest to them. Flash is certainly sexy and can be useful, but should be used as elements on a page (whcih can then be crawled/indexed), not as a whole site.

]]> http://www.ask-kalena.com/q-and-a/q-and-a-are-flex-flash-based-websites-search-engine-friendly/comment-page-1/#comment-25034 robertk Fri, 12 Jun 2009 07:54:28 +0000 http://www.ask-kalena.com/?p=930#comment-25034 Very nice post - I have recently made a website completely in flex - I noticed that while the website itself was indexed, the content (as this website used A LOT of php based retirieval) was not indexed as well as I had hoped. Hopefully this will change in the near future but for now I suggest if SEO is your main target - stick with the xhtml. Very nice post – I have recently made a website completely in flex – I noticed that while the website itself was indexed, the content (as this website used A LOT of php based retirieval) was not indexed as well as I had hoped. Hopefully this will change in the near future but for now I suggest if SEO is your main target – stick with the xhtml.

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